CEMPlanner™ for Emergency Management

The Challenge: Writing standards-based plans that meet state and federal requirements when your organization is under-staffed, under-budgeted, under-trained, and over-extended.

Developing a plan is an intensive and continuous process. A good Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) can take over a year to develop. Emergency management agencies must overcome numerous challenges to plan effectively: Staffing and resource limitations, scheduling stakeholders and achieving their "buy in", availability of good plan writers. Additionally, planning standards are numerous and are imposed by multiple organizations and in multiple documents.

For a local emergency manager, just keeping up with the various mandates is a formidable task, even without looking at best practices. As a result, plans often become simple compliance documents, satisfying regulated requirements but often just sit on a bookshelf and fail to become operational or implemented during live incidents.

Additionally, a true Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) is not just an EOP, there are actually multiple plans ,such a COOP, COG, Hazard Mitigation, required by communities including nine different types of plans required for compliance standards like the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP).

It's no wonder costly consulting firms are contracted to help write the plans and help facilitate the planning process.

The Solution: CEMPlanner™

CEMPlanner is a standards-based planning tool that guides planners and community stakeholders step-by-step through the planning process. Users simply fill in the customizable templates and the software does the rest.

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• Simplify scheduling
• Conduct "virtual" planning meetings
• Provide planning guidance for all stakeholders
• Create standards based plans that can be submitted for approval and activated during response with any incident management system

Continual Preparedness System (CPS) for Emergency Management

The Challenge: More effectively managing the incident lifecycle in multi-hazard, multi-agency operating environments.

As natural or manmade incidents move from routine to extreme along the continuum, layers of complexity emerge and uncertainty begins to arise. Affected areas grow from local to regional, multi-agency coordination of assets and personnel can become overwhelming.

Incident commanders are faced with a myriad on incoming requirements - resource requests, inquiries, requests for action - that arrive simultaneously in different formats - email, phone, radio.

Effectively managing this dynamic environment requires a system, with the right mix of capabilities, scalability, and flexibility to meet these operational complexities.

The Solution: Continual Preparedness System (CPS)

Capabilities combined with a web-base platform, CPS provides an ideal solution for multi-agency coordination (MAC) systems, preparedness and response agencies that want to:

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Enhance Planning

• Implement daily preparedness activities, unify planning efforts
• Enable multi-agency coordination
• Use step-by-step planning wizard to automate static paper plans into dynamic response tools that can be tracked and managed during a response
• Validate plans with a comprehensive exercise module
• Create digital data repository of critical information
• Seamlessly incorporate NIMS and ICS processes and procedures

Enhance Response

• Connect all stakeholders
• Enable multi-agency coordination
• Manage incident related information and create a common operating pictures
• Communicate in real time with live chat and messaging
• Utilize the ICS Incident Action plan
• Assign and track tasks and missions
• Manage resources requests, shortfalls, deployments, and costs
• Forecast daily resource requirements with scenario based modeling
• View critical infrastructure, site plans, personnel, incident locations, and facilities geographically on GIS maps
• View regional and statewide resource inventory on GIS maps
• Monitor on demand status reporting

Enhance Recovery and Reimbursement

• Manage Project Worksheets, contractors, and damage assessments
• Automatically generate cost reimbursement reports

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